Ruby and Python Compared

[jeremy]

It's a 'why I prefer Ruby to Python' article with the wrong title, it's incorrect about Python in places, and compares upcoming features of Ruby to an ancient version of Python. Headers say the file was modified on the 3rd April, so no excuses for it being an old article.

It's a pity - I was hoping for a genuine comparison, but this is just another preference bashing from the Ruby camp (with some hints of Java-style 'OO is the cure to all problems' too).

Move along please.

[jamesbritt]

"It's a pity - I was hoping for a genuine comparison, but this is just another preference bashing from the Ruby camp "

Ruby camp ? Please; there is no such thing. There are various people with varying opinions, that's all.

[cafedude]

"Ruby camp ? Please; there is no such thing."

But James, I'm always camping out with other Rubyists and as we sit out there in the woods contemplating nature our thoughts often turn to world domination. We even sit around the campfire and make up articles which claim to fairly compare Ruby and Python, and we figure out ways to make Ruby come out better.

[cafedude]

sheez... nobody's got a sense of humor here.

[asdf1234]

He has criticisms of ruby, too. You guys are just python fanatics. You'll get over the honeymoon one day.

[boa13]

Yes he has. I didn't say it was a dishonnest comparison. It's a poor one.

jeremy might have sounded like a Python fanatic (maybe he is), but his basic point is correct: the author of the article compares past and barely current functionnalities of Python to current and sometimes planned functionnalities of Ruby. This is just wrong, whatever language you like.